on Oct 4th, 2006
Pandora dance party
Ben and I are both avid Pandora listeners. Pandora.com is a “radio station†of sorts online. You pick a song, or band, that represents the genre of music that you want to listen to. Then Pandora goes into their huge database and finds lots of music that it thinks you will probably like. For example, if I type in “collective soul†for the label for one of my “radio stations†then Pandora will automatically begin playing collective soul songs and others like them; often times I have never even heard some of the songs. It is a great way to find new music. I am not a “music†person. I haven’t even opened the free iPod that I got with this Mac. I prefer to listen to Audible books from my Treo, or news/talk radio in the car. For me it is not that I don’t like music, I do, but it is a lot of effort to figure out what song I want to listen too. Every two or three minutes I have to pick a new song. So I usually shuffle my music, but then I get frustrated when my iPod jumps from Will Smith to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Pandora is the best thing that has ever happened to my relationship with music. When I want to listen to Josh Groban I don’t really want to just listen to only Josh Groban, I usually just want to listen to his style of music. Pandora meets this need.
Anyway, sorry for getting off on that tangent. Usually I listen to classical music with ear phones while I study. Today, Ben hooked his computer up to the surround sound. The sound quality is surprisingly fantastic. This means that we can have a dance party here at our flat with pandora as our DJ! Pandora Rocks.